The Courtyard in the Mirror
Emine Sevgi Özdamar Translated by Leslie A. Adelson Download PDF Abstract: This multilingual short story is a multifaceted gem of contemporary fiction. Tracking habits and ruptures in the daily lives of her neighbors and interlocutors around a German courtyard, a Turkish migrant begins to model-whimsically and with punning poignancy-something approximating postnational intimacy. In this imaginative […]
„Felsenwand“ vs. „Blumental“: Fremdwahrnehmung und Selbststilisierung in J.G. Seumes Mein Sommer 1805
Jakob Starzinger Download PDF Abstract: Der Beitrag verortet Johann Gottfried Seumes Reisebericht “Mein Sommer 1805” im Kontext der Reiseliteratur der Spätaufklärung und interpretiert ihn im methodischen Anschluss an neuere Ansätze der kulturpoetischen Ethnographie als Manifestation einer der personalen und der nationalen Identitätsbildung dienenden Konstruktion des Fremden. Es wird gezeigt, dass Seume, ausgestattet mit dem “cultural […]
Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and The European Road Movie, by Ewa Mazierska and Laura Rascaroli
Reviewed by Steve Choe Download PDF Ewa Mazierska and Laura Rascaroli. Crossing New Europe: Postmodern Travel and The European Road Movie. London: Wallflower Press, 2006. Pp. 245. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $25.00. It is frankly astonishing to read that, according to the back cover of Crossing New Europe, this new text represents “the first comprehensive study of […]
Kafka’s Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing, by John Zilcosky
Reviewed by Christina Gerhardt Download PDF John Zilcosky. Kafka’s Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. xvi, 289. Cloth $79.95. Paper $26.95. As much a meditation on the relationship among Franz Kafka’s writing, travel and travel writing, and concomitant subject matters – such as fin de siècle exoticism, […]